Hi Joshua Wilson; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > I recently installed Debian GNU/Linux, and I am having a terrible time > getting PPP to work with my modem. I have a US Robotics 28.8 at > /dev/ttyS2. I tried to set up PPP using pppconfig and I have looked > at the files in /etc/ppp. Everything seems to be ok, but when I run > pon my modem does not dial, nothing happens, and plog tells me that > the connect script failed. I have consulted various HOWTOs and > documentation but they all seem to refer to pre-HAM versions of Debian > and reference a ppp.chatscript file that my box doesn't have. I also > searched the debian-user archives but could not find a relevant > answer. However, the archives did mention trying to dial out using > minicom. Minicom was able to get my modem to dial, but this still > does not solve my PPP problem since my ISP uses PAP and I do not how > to negotiate a connection to it using minicom. Any help or ideas > about how to get my modem to work with PPP would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Josh Wilson
sorry if this sounds stupid, but do you really have your modem on /dev/ttyS2? Does your minicom or something similar work? The reason I'm asking this is that my USR 33.6 (which I can't imagine being any diff than 28.8) was preset at /dev/ttyS1 (which is DOS com2..) HTH damir
